Here’s someone who has that ubiquitous almost famous look, like he was in a band, or has been there/done that, but nobody can quite spot/identify him. I keep running into him, and then saw him on record store day leafing thru stuff at Sound Fix in the Village. Some fan stared at him a bit …
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Was saddened to hear that REM had announced they were breaking up. Sad that they wouldn’t be playing again? Uh, no. I cant remember the last time they were absolutely essential. Decent stuff, sure sure, but not the break down the doors/get in line @ Tower records variety. Sad that they felt the need to …
Williamsburg hipsters from Greenpoint to Bedford-Stuyvesant have been flocking in droves to hear tributes to The Ink Spots at local watering holes and music venues. From what we can gather, a full-scale revival Ink Spots revival is in progress. “This has gone critical,” sneered one local Williamsburg hipster standing outside the Trash Bar. “Yeah, we’re …
I think many people would enjoy this. It’s a self created pet photo book in potentially vivid color. You order online and they send it to you. I haven’t tried it. I don’t know if it works. Thanks to Dennis Shin, who adds, “I’d buy the book above with the dude in shades, even tho …
Regine Chassagne from Arcade Fire walked past me earlier while I was chatting in the street with members of Alpine, then found myself standing next to Peter Buck at the Continental in SoCo. Spent some time at Alejandro Escovedo’s showcase, then rounded off the night by being guest listed (thanks to Dennis Shin) for the …
http://youtu.be/qAkubiZhly4 “To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest …
With The Harlem Gospel Travelers‘ new album Rhapsody, the extraordinary vocalists Ifedayo, Dennis Bailey, and George Marage are able to fully explore the entire range of music that influenced them. The follow-up to their acclaimed 2021 release Look Up!, the record is a dive into a lesser-known but hugely important era in the evolution of gospel music. Starting in the mid-1960s, local …
The Harlem Gospel Travelers (photo: Rosie Cohe) The Harlem Gospel Travelers are back with another track taken from the extensive catalog of The Numero Group, following the release of their recent single “God’s Love.” Their cover of Truimphs’ ‘We Don’t Love Enough’ is a social commentary, originally written to make a statement about the injustices of the music industry, the …
Credit: Jody Domingue Dec. 15, 2023 – Today, Austin-based singer-songwriter Ruthie Foster shares an electrifying live rendition of “What Kind of Fool,” a slow-burning highlight taken from her critically acclaimed album Healing Time. Recorded at the Haute Spot in Cedar Park, Texas, the multiple Blues Music Award winner’s powerhouse vocals soar during this show-stopping performance. The new live release arrives on the …
NEW SONG WITH PEDRO SAMPAIO AND DENNIS OUT NOW NEW YORK, NY (THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14) – Anitta is more than ready for summer in Brazil and bringing the heat and funk to the world! The global star is releasing her last single of the year, “Joga pra Lua”, in collaboration with producers Pedro Sampaio and DENNIS. It’s …
Danish sensation Oh Land (Nanna Øland Fabricius) will be releasing her highly anticipated new album, Loop Soup, next Friday, September 29 via her own imprint, Tusk or Tooth. A determined return to genre-bending pop, Oh Land strives to forge her own sonic universe as she navigates her place in today’s society. The result is unconventional song structures, ethereal vocals, and grandiose, …
[London] Wednesday 15th February 2023: The Ivors Academy has today revealed Sting as the latest songwriter to become an Academy Fellow, the highest honour the Academy bestows. He will receive the award at The Ivors on 18th May in London. The Academy also reveals Amazon Music as the new title sponsor of The Ivors in a collaboration that …
LISTEN: RAMBLIN’ SOUL Today, critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter and upright bassist Melissa Carper has released her new LP, Ramblin’ Soul, via Mae Music/Thirty Tigers. In 2020, grappling with the loss of regular gigs, Carper and her partner, award-winning fiddler Rebecca Patek, moved to a friend’s farm near Austin, working in exchange for housing, organic vegetables, and fresh, country air. The …
[Here’s the local show info: Fri. Sep. 23 Monophonics’ Sage Motel Tour w/ GA-20 & Kendra Morris 9pm at Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St, Portland, OR (503) 284-8686 | $22] MONOPHONICS TO EMBARK ON 24-CITY NORTH AMERICAN SAGE MOTEL TOUR WITH COLEMINE RECORDS LABEL MATES GA-20 AND KENDRA MORRIS! GET TICKETS HERE The world’s premier psychedelic soul band, Monophonics …
Lolo Zouaï, the budding global pop star returns with a remix of “Galipette” featuring rising South Korean K-POP star BIBI. Expertly weaving between her two mother tongues French and English, Zouaï takes “Galipette” to an even more hypnotic headspace with BIBI contributing a compelling flare of Korean that adds to the already electric track. Combining multiple styles, genres, and even languages, …
‘Look at Your Game Girl’ by Charlie Manson is a problem. Marilyn Manson never wrote a song as good as ‘Look at Your Game Girl’. That is a demo and Marilyn never sang as well as that on a major label release. Most of Charles Manson’s songs are trash. But he has one diamond that …
I just found out the reggae singer Bunny Brown just passed away. He was the first one at Sly & Robbie’s studio that pulled me aside and wanted to hear what I had to say as a songwriter, and to just be friends. The last time we spoke we talked about working more on this …
Seattle guitar stalwart and dare I say legend, Stingshark Sting is laying down guitar on collaborations for ‘Going South’ and ‘Life Yard’. Working with Stingshark and Hold in Fyah is a big deal to me. I am doing some really cool Jamaican collaborations, but this is the part of West Indian Rock where we bring it all back home …
You might want to stay tuned the next three weeks on my return to Jamaica. I spent every day since my return getting ready to go back, and I am still not ready. How could I be? This cover represents what happened on my first dance with Jam Rock. It was like a novel about …
“Ava taught him how to sing a torch song. She taught him the hard way.” —Nelson Riddle The idea is that Frank Sinatra’s impossible, unresolvable romantic relationship with Ava Gardner—for whom he left his wife at a time (1950) when it simply wasn’t done; to whom he was married for a brief, tumultuous period (1951–53*); …
JONNY TWO BAGS, heretofore better known as Jonny Wickersham, guitarist for Social Distortion, will be appearing in PORTLAND, OR at WONDER BALLROOM on TUESDAY, APRIL 8th – opening for Chuck Ragan and the Camaraderie. Doors: 7:30pm, Show: 8:30pm. Tickets: $20.00 – $23.00. In January 2014, Rolling Stone premiered the lead track from Two Bags’ new, …
MH: OMG, I almost managed a morning start! Not quite pre-noon, although I did manage to get back down to 6th Street in order to catch Feathers play a lunch-time slot. I was curious about these. Their PR image is of a very glossy 4-girl band, almost too glamorous to be real, and I’d been …
PD: Friday morning came like a dull thud. Fell out of bed and down to breakfast just before the kitchen shut. The morning was more challenging than any previous that week, and I hated missing perfectly good sets starting at noon, but there are only so many 03.00 roll-ins one can manage without deleterious effect …
And here it is. As if you didn’t have enough to do… I have launched a second blog, which can be found at http://www.burningluv.blogspot.com/ Why Burning Love?? Burning Wood (my original blog) is approaching its 4th year, and if there is one thing I’ve learned in four years, aside from how many of you hate …
Is there any justice in this world that I get a rare (for me) head cold and end up feeling punk all week – the week my beloved Flogging Molly are playing? This proves a negation of God. No god would be so cruel as to make my bi-annual head cold coincide with such an …
B’shoot was exhausting, not to mention rather slight in the big names/next big things department. At this point I shouldn’t need to rely on Old Soul Artists (Mavis Staples, Dennis Coffey, Charles Bradley, hell, even Hall & Oates!) to provide my hardcore jollies at a big Seattle music festival, but I guess it’s come to …
Just in case you didn’t see this today: JOHN LYDON’S TOP OF THE POPS ROOTS REGGAE PICKS: http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/john_lydons_top_of_the_pops_roots_reggae_picks/ It’s been interesting to read in the Keith Richards book how very deep into reggae he was/is too. Of course, I knew about Peter Tosh opening for The Stones, living in Keith’s house, and Keith’s pad in …